Overview

This book, first published in 1939, was originally conceived as an investigation of peasant farming in Europe written in the years of the agricultural depression of the nineteen-thirties. It shows an immense contrast between the well-capitalized commercial peasant farming of Western Europe and the poor subsistence farming of the remotest parts of Eastern Europe; and between these two extremes a wide range of variation in standards of living and farming efficiency.

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Author:   Doreen Warriner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138993297

ISBN 10:   1138993298
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Europe's farm problem: agriculture and economic development; the origin of peasant society; differences in standards of living in Europe; Europe's farm problem; the political background. Part 2 The German solution: population and production; trade and tariffs; possible remedies. Part 3 Over-population: what is over-population?; what level of density indicates surplus population?; causes of the high density of farm population. Part 4 The standard of living: nutrition; housing; consumption of manufactured goods. Part 5 The efficiency of the farming system: Czechoslovakia and Western Hungary. Part 6 The efficiency of the farming system: the Danube plain in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Part 7 The efficiency of the farming system: Poland, Transylvania, Yugoslavia south of the Slava. Part 8 The advantages and disadvantages of peasant farming: advantages - the effect of peasant farming on the distribution of income, employment and labour conditions; disadvantages - technical defects, capital investment. Part 9 The Russian solution: the results of collectivization; the social organization; incomes and standards of living; collectivization as a remedy for Eastern Europe; conclusion.

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Doreen Warriner Reader in Social and Economic Studies of Eastern Europe, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.

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